Director: Stacey N. Harding
A publicist with a reputation to protect and a pitcher with a slump to escape make an unlikely pair in Hearts in the Game, a 2023 romantic comedy that leans on old wounds and small-town nostalgia.
What is Hearts in the Game about?
Hazel Miller has built a career shaping other people's images in New York City, and her latest assignment lands her opposite Diego Vasquez, a Mets pitcher whose confidence collapsed after a costly moment in a World Series game. The catch is that Hazel and Diego already have history: he was the boyfriend who broke her heart back in high school. Fixing Diego's public standing means returning with him to their Ohio hometown, where old grudges, family ties and unfinished feelings resurface faster than either of them expects.
Cast & crew
Erin Cahill and Marco Grazzini lead as Hazel and Diego, with Sarah Smyth, Todd Thomson, Jason Fernandes, Olivia Steele-Falconer, Bethany Brown and Jason McKinnon rounding out the small-town ensemble. Director Stacey N. Harding keeps the pacing brisk and the tone warm, favoring easy banter over melodrama as the two leads circle each other across an 82-minute runtime.
Context & significance
A Canada-United States co-production, Hearts in the Game belongs to the crowded field of sports-adjacent romantic comedies built around a professional athlete forced to confront a public failure. Its structure — big-city career pressure colliding with an unresolved hometown romance — is familiar territory for the genre, but the baseball setting and the publicist's-eye framing give it a slightly different angle than the usual holiday-market rom-com.
Where & how to watch
Hearts in the Game is available on K-Time with a Farsi dub and Persian subtitles, so Persian-speaking viewers can watch it in the language they're most comfortable with. The film's page is free to browse, and streaming it requires only a K-Time account login, no separate purchase. K-Time's interface is built around Farsi navigation for the Iranian diaspora, keeping language options a tap away.